This file provides information for replicating the results from: Jonathan Kastellec. 2011. "Hierarchical and Collegial Politics on the U.S.
Courts of Appeals." Journal of Politics.

DATA
-- Judge-level data on cases: "data_for_analysis_judge_level.dta"
-- Case-level data on cases: "data_for_analysis_case_level.dta"
-- Codebook for case-level data:  "case_data_codebook.pdf"
            (this applies to both judge-level and case-level data)
-- Dataset on partisan composition of the Courts of Appeals, 1925 to 2007: "partisan.composition.csv"
-- Dataset with estimates of inter-institutional ideal points from Bailey (2007): "bailey_data.csv"

SCRIPTS

All the analyses were performed using R. The main script is "kastellec_hierarchical_collegial_replication_script.R".
        This script calls separate scripts to make each figure:
		 	-- "figure_1_script.R"
		 	-- "figure_2_script.R"
 			-- "figure_3a_script.R"
			-- "figure_3b_script.R"
			-- "figure_4a_script.R"
			-- "figure_4b_script.R"

 

